Happy #gotchaday to me!! Two years ago today, mom picked me up in Astoria Park when my @friendswithfourpaws transport rolled in from Oklahoma! Through @fosterdogs mom became a foster (and then a #fosterfail when she adopted me two weeks later 😂). Here’s some before and after pics from my early NYC days vs more recent. Same adorable face but +3lbs and occasionally looking a little less scruffy 😆. The first photo is actually the one mom saw of me before she picked me up! The pic of me in my red coat (thank you @kmc827) is from one of my first walks on the UES. As a side note - I refused to relieve myself for a full 48 hours (!!!!) after arriving in the city bc I just couldn’t wrap my mind around the idea of peeing on pavement 😳 #countryboy

I’ve heard the words - Why are you doing another challenge? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Your skinny enough the way it is. I used to think that my only purpose was losing weight. I recently came to realize it’s not about the weight anymore. It’s about having a goal - about conquering something bigger than me - about motivating other woman to believe they can do it too!
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When your children do something they aren’t suppose to do, you punish them by sending them to their rooms or making them stand in the corner. We don’t just let them keep doing it over and over again. Eventually they will continue to do it even more because they know there are no consequences for their actions.
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When we eat unhealthy we are disobeying our bodies. If we keep doing it. It can get out of control and we can fall off track even worse than we thought. We then find ourselves gaining 5. 10. Maybe 15 lbs or more. That’s why we should discipline our selves to do better. Set goals and don’t stop til you achieve them.
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Once you’ve hit that goal congratulate yourself with something you really want or missed just like you would a child whose obeyed their parents. 💕